Many folks with small farms and nearly all farmers and ranchers who raise cattle utilize some of their own animals for beef. There are various ways to do this if you want freezer beef for your family.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Kids Gazette Cooking Series visited the Birker Family's farm to learn how beef cows are raised. Brittany ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

Andy Dickerson and Nick Hartley stand in a cow pasture at Bahr Farm. Beef cows graze in a pasture at a small farm nestled between Finneytown and College Hill. The 32-acre Bahr Farm has been around ...

Jim Knopik winds up a twine fence to let his cattle into a new area of pasture for grazing on his central Nebraska ranch. Knopik uses a ranching practice called mob grazing, which aims to improve soil ...

When Gabe Brown first got into regenerative agriculture more than 25 years ago, he wasn't trying to solve climate change. "I was just trying to keep the banker at bay and feed my family," Brown told ...

WASHINGTON — Raising beef for the American dinner table does far more damage to the environment than producing pork, poultry, eggs or dairy, a new study says. Compared with the other animal proteins, ...